In My Place

The store I choose to write my Close-reading on is “ A Small Place” by Jamaica Kincaid. In the beginning of In a Small Place I had some mix feelings about it somewhere good and some bad. As the story starts it her telling use what’s happening and what she seeing for example. She describing her country by telling us how non-locals see the country as beautiful, but the locals who see it as a trashy and a bad corrupt place. I want to know why the author makes this point in the beginning? I can only…

increasingly urgent. My grandmother is currently 92 years old, and has been part of what could be called “the revolving door cycle for the elderly,” for many years. Constantly prone to losing her balance, my grandmother has taken more than a few tumbles, and has been rushed to the hospital many times. She is taken into the emergency room, where her injuries and medical needs are assessed. After a few days stay at the hospital, and the usual myriad array of tests…

Mansfield, drew me to the memory of my late great-grandmother and the residents of her assisted living home. Silenced by their isolation, often people in the advanced stages of life are driven by a desire to participate in the world around them. Miss Brill finds her place in the park in the interactions between others and the scenery around her, just as those that spent Sunday afternoons rocking back and forth on the porch of the assisted living home found their place watching the families of…

Aging, Place, and Technology: Toward Improving Access and Wellness in Older Populations In this article, the author states that the place of residence may affect the probability of achieving a public health objective. As he further mentions, aging in place is considered the ability to live in one’s own home independently and comfortably. However, there are certainly many challenges and additional resources needed to satisfy the demands of everyday life particularly in the decline in health and…

The process of gazing at "secondary kinds of beauty" like physical beauty of a boy such as Tadzio, and it is a process, means reaching a place where one can see pure Beauty. Weil notes that "he will finally arrive at the center of the labyrinth. And there God is waiting to eat him. Later he will go out again, but he will be changed, he will have become different, after being eaten and digested by God" (Weil, 164). Obviously one is not literally eaten and digested by God, rather one climbs the…

I have opted to donate some of my time to give back to my community that I live in. In Mt. Zion Illinois, lays an assisted living facility known as the “Glenwood.” When I went into their office to ask them if it was permissible for me to do volunteer work, they made me aware that this is an organization is a for profit organization. That means all the employees are getting paid to do all of the work that they do, and the price to live here is going to be more expensive for the residents due to…

live their life, and face little to no consequences when doing so. Twenty-eight years ago, Eddie Murphy released his ambitious and now beloved comedy, Coming to America. Coming to America follows Prince Akeem and Semmi’s journey to the unfamiliar place of Queens, New York from Zamunda, Africa in hopes to fulfill Prince Akeem’s desire to blissfully fall in love. Overall, Coming to America’s ensemble cast did an excellent job exemplifying America’s 1980’s exuberance, which boosted Murphy’s career…

Journal - Kc Adams 1. Give a full description of where the issue discussed was observed. This is a song that I have listened to for several years. I liked it when I was younger, so I bought it, but I have never looked closely at the lyrics before now. 2. Give a brief statement as to why this issue was chosen. I chose this song because the title of the song itself "Angel With a Shotgun" feels like an issue immediately and because I wanted to look closer to see how the image of an…

Happiness is interesting, as it could be described as both a feeling and a place. For some people happiness is doing what you love as long as you’re surrounded by people that you love. But for others happiness is more superficial and could simply be a mundane destination such as Maui, Hawaii. Both Susan Orleans and Eric Wiener in their books, My Kind of Place and The Geography of Bliss expose what it means to be happy and if happiness is found or achieved. These works are similar in that they…

September 17, 2004 was the exact day I had left a place I called my home. There is no tragic scene to tell behind leaving the place I truly had loved. A place where I grew up, created unforgettable memories with my family around me, and the place where my origins flourished within me. Two years prior to leaving, my father, an international businessman had received a great job opportunity across seas. His new offered occupation meant a new lifestyle for all of us and an opportunity for him to…